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You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016)

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Post by billti »

retrac wrote: post #60
lr4444lr wrote: post #8

Someone finally wrote this article. So refreshing. It's obvious when you live with a fat person why they have trouble losing weight, even when they're on a diet: they're usually not actually following it. Whether they don't understand portion sizes for calorie math, or look at calories at all, or eat things that they say "do not count", there is almost always a failure to understand what and how much they are eating.

One of my roommates tried everything, including good hard exercise and all sorts of diets. Nothing seemed to be working. It was kind of perplexing me, actually. Then we started working the same schedule, breakfast together. The whole thing unravelled with a casual comment he made. "Wow, you're really stingy with the sugar in your coffee." Except I wasn't. I was actually indulging myself, like two tablespoons. Show me…

Being from the UK I tend to use milk rather than cream in coffee. One pack of raw sugar is 20 calories. One ounce full fat milk the same. Being I only drink a cup or two a day, 40 calories a cup is a reasonable price to pay to avoid artificial sweetener.

What blew my mind is how many calories are in a couple ounces of trail mix. I used to snack on that whenever I’d pass the cupboard. I can pay for a week of coffee by avoiding a few handfuls of trail mix!

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Post by jurassic »

I've struggled with weight my whole life. The only thing I've figured out for sure is that cutting out nearly all added sugar is essential to keeping my calories where they should be. Firstly because of the calories in the sugar. But more importantly because I believe sugar makes me hungry and causes me to overeat other foods.

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Post by dawnerd »

csours wrote: post #73

I weigh 350 pounds. I'm very obese. I know this. When I was a teenager, I looked at people who weighed 300+ pounds and though, how do you get that way. Don't you realize that you are gaining weight? Don't you know that you just have to eat less to lose weight? Anyway, now I realize that I am hungry. It never goes away unless I eat a significant amount of food. My body told me to eat, so I ate. It doesn't even take th…

Same. Had to go on keto and it was tough the first couple days but now I struggle to eat enough as crazy as it sounds. I’m just not hungry like I used to be. Consistently losing 2lbs a week. Hope you stick with what works for you!

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Post by occz »

The title statement, while true, is not really useful, because it fails to tackle the really interesting question, which is why we are eating more calories than our bodies expend.

Particularly interesting is why this started happening around 1980, and not before. Food was calorically dense enough and available before that point.

I recommend checking out the writeup by Slime Mold Time Mold on this subject - see it here: http://achemicalhunger.com/

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Post by szastamasta »

I’m tracking my calories intake for more than 2 years. Every meal, every day (due to my fitness goals and I’m very serious about it) and I totally agree, that if you haven’t nazi-tracked your calories at least for a while, you have totally no idea how much do you eat. People can miss-judge their daily intake by 1000 calories easily.

Most people simply confuse calories with being full. It has nothing in common. You can eat 400kcal and be full and 1500 and be hungry.

There’s no other way to gain or loose weight, but to track calories.

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Post by xdrone »

thepasswordis wrote: post #72

Keto diets are both safe and effective. I have yet to meet somebody following one who didn't lose weight. I feel like this topic is basically resolved. Stop eating carbs.

Most studies on the subject of "keto mortality" say otherwise. I wouldn't consider keto safe at all.

Here's a few from a quick search: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7145128/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23372809/

https://www.thelancet.com/article/S2468-2667(18)30135-X/full...

imo, organizations like NutritionalFacts.org offer the best evidence based guidence for health, and weight loss. They site studies for each talking point. There are years of content here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddn8dUxYdgJz3Qr5mjADtA

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Post by Bluecobra »

cj wrote: post #150

> The golden child of the food industry: organic produce. Even though studies have shown that organic food doesn’t have any additional health benefits versus conventional While this may be true, I was able to go from 240lb to 185lb (I’m 6’2) in 10 months by: 1) Eating only organic, non-gmo, and gluten free 2) Only shopping at expensive health food stores that only carry specialty brands (no Oreos or Poptarts in stock…

> 2) Only shopping at expensive health food stores that only carry specialty brands (no Oreos or Poptarts in stock!)

This is one of the reasons I like shopping at Whole Foods, everything sold is has been vetted and doesn’t contain crap like high fructose corn syrup. I remember reading an article somewhere where like 75% of the groceries sold at Walmart can’t be sold at Whole Foods.

There’s a list of banned ingredients here:

https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/quality-standards/food-ingr...

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Post by lordnacho »

csours wrote: post #73

I weigh 350 pounds. I'm very obese. I know this. When I was a teenager, I looked at people who weighed 300+ pounds and though, how do you get that way. Don't you realize that you are gaining weight? Don't you know that you just have to eat less to lose weight? Anyway, now I realize that I am hungry. It never goes away unless I eat a significant amount of food. My body told me to eat, so I ate. It doesn't even take th…

I think this is actually the most common experience. Everyone says they want to lose weight, but they just can't bring themselves to eat a sensible amount. Heck, I'm trying it now, writing down everything I eat, weighing myself each day, and it's still going pretty damn slowly.

> So many diets talk about not being hungry while you are on the diet. I've been to dieticians and told them I'm hungry, and they suggest eating more protein or more fiber. That does help, but I still feel hungry.

Have you thought about eating something that just has very few calories, in order to fill you up? Carrots have barely any calories and need a fair bit of chewing. Popcorn without salt/sugar/butter as well. Diet drinks or water.

What's helped me a bit is just looking at all the calorie labels on everything to get a feel for what the cost of each item is, then using that as a kind of "is it worth it" budget. A lot of things go out the door when you do that, but surprisingly some quite nice things stay on the menu.

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Post by TameAntelope »

elmerfud wrote: post #3
Vladimof wrote: post #2

yeah, exercise is not for losing fat... it's just for staying in good health

You're not wrong because it's about calorie deficit of which exercise can help you achieve. Also since the way fat gets "burned" for weight loss is by exhaling carbon atoms, aerobic exercise can assist with this process. As always do not add more mass than you expel.

Exercise may not actually help achieve calorie deficit, based on some relatively new research saying that when you exercise, your body compensates by burning fewer calories in other areas, like your lungs and your brain. [0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/well/move/weight-loss-exe...

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